Hi everyone,

I've been out of the MCAD world for a little over two years now since my former employer shut its doors. Long story short, we're going to be getting back into operation soon and I'm reacquainting myself with everything that has changed the past two years and deciding how I'm going to get things going.

My first (of probably many) questions is how closely does iPropWiz compare to Netstream's iCenter as far as populating iProps with formulas? I pretty much depended on iCenter to automatically enter quite a few iProps for use in some custom macros. From what I can tell, Netstream is no longer around or at least not updating iCenter for newer versions of Inventor so I'm looking for something to take its place once I get upgraded to 2013 (or 2012...or whatever I end up with)


Thanks in advance for any input

Hi Todd,

Welcome back. iPropWiz does many of the things that iCenter did (I think they are no longer in business), it does handle iproperty expression to some degree currently. We are working on substantial improvements in this area for the next release of iPropWiz (v6), let us know what you need.

You can download a 30 day trial from the web site, and an updated version (v5.5) for Inventor 2013 should be available in the next few days, or you can download a trial version for Inventor 2013 from the Inventor Exchange site (app store).

Neil

Thanks a lot, Neil!

This is one of the formulas I used in iCenter. This is for the iProp called ROUGH_LENGTH.





Basically, If the iProp DESC = "Ply" then ROUGH_LENGTH = FinishedLength (FinishedLength is an iProp populated from a sketch parameter)

If the iProp Category = "OUT" then ROUGH_LENGTH = FinishedLength

If the iProp FinishedLength is <= 23 then ROUGH_LENGTH = 23

If not, ROUGH_LENGTH = the value of FinishedLength + 1 (Rounded to 5 decimal places)



Out of 22 iProps in each part I manually entered two of them and entered five via dropdowns, which is why I grew so reliant on iCenter. I'll download the IPW2009 trial and take a look since I'm stuck with IV2009 right now.


Thanks again, Neil

IPW 20009 did not have any functionality to do with property expressions. We don't have plans to drive parameter values from property values but I think you'll find what we have planned will help. We will send you an invite to the beta for v6 when it comes out.

If you do upgrade Inventor, have a look at iLogic. With it, you could create rules to manage the above updates.

Thanks,
Neil

Ahhh so I'm not on the blacklist necessarily after all . . .

Say, Neil, I'm throwing my hat in the ring if you need a beta tester, and don't mind telling them when enough is enough.